Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo (born 8 January 1987) is an English actress, singer, and songwriter.
She is known for her performance as Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, the latter two she shared with the rest of the cast.
Erivo ventured into films in 2018, with roles in the heist film Widows and the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. In 2019, she portrayed abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet, for which she earned nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Cynthia Erivo interview: The highly acclaimed actress’s debut album means she’s dancing to her own tune
msn.comCynthia Erivo’s CV; the 34 year-old Londoner already has a Wikipedia page for her awards and nominations alone. Having shone on Broadway in the musical of The Color Purple, she garnered an Oscar nomination for playing the runaway slave Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and more recently an Emmy nomination for playing the Queen of Soul, Aretha.
She is in fact just the ‘O’, the Oscar, short of an EGOT, having already hoovered up an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and next month she is releasing an album of her own songs.
Little wonder then that Oprah Winfrey, no less, has been in touch to say: hey - maybe she should slow down?“I will never forget getting that email,” chuckles Erivo, on a Zoom call from her home in LA.
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